Firearms

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This paper provides an in-depth examination the criminal use of guns on American streets and constitutional right to bare arms. It explores the application and defense of the Second Amendment in the 1939 Supreme Court case of the U.S. vs. Miller. The paper argues that gun control only inhabits the legal rights of the innocent to protect themselves and that it has not lowered the crime rates in the United States.

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"Every day Americans face the ever-increasing problem of violence. News reports sometimes make it seem as if the streets of America are more like a war zone than home. Teenage gang members murder each other for drug territory, and innocent victims often find themselves caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is the fact that our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot ignore the carnage our society endures as a result of criminal behavior of a minority, obviously lacking the basic moral behavior regarding human life. Nevertheless, we must not be misguided in our efforts to address the problem at hand. Since guns are the weapons of destruction in many crimes, gun control is an issue that immediately seems to surface. But to eliminate the right of citizens to own firearms is not a solution."

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